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Interview Mistakes Costing Product Managers Offers in 2026

Hosted by Shobhit Chugh

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In this video

What you'll learn

The Decision-Mode Test

A 30-second check you can run on any interview story to see if it sounds like a leader’s decision or a project recap.

The real question behind the question

How to understand what they truly are trying to ask you and to answer the real question

A Live Diagnosis

I’ll take two real senior PM answers and show you where each one lost the room, sentence by sentence.

The Pressure Baseline Checklist

What to do in the 90 seconds before the call connects so you start the interview further down the stress curve.

Q&A

Bring the question that stumps you the most

Why this topic matters

I've coached over 1,383 Product Managers. I see repeated patterns that cause product managers to lose to other, often less-qualified Product Managers. I reveal that in this presentation.

You'll learn from

Shobhit Chugh

Career Coach for Product Managers, CEO at Intentional Product Manager

Shobhit Chugh is the founder of Intentional Product Manager. A former Google product manager, he has coached more than 1,000 PMs into roles at Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Stripe, Shopify, Coinbase and Intuit, at an average compensation increase of 35 to 45%.

His team has run more than a thousand career strategy calls in the last three years. The interview mistakes in this session are the ones that come up on those calls again and again, from PMs who were qualified for the role and lost it anyway.

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